Scope and Contents
These scrapbooks document the history of the museum, including information related to former curators including Kuno Francke, Charles L. Kuhn, John David Farmer, and Peter Nisbet. Scrapbooks contain lecture and exhibition announcements, pamphlets, flyers, and posters, invitations and tickets, photographs of museum exhibitions, curatorial letters and memos, commencement programs, press releases, concert and recital announcements and programs, financial records (statistical, accessions, income/expense & summary reports, museum attendance), materials related to the Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge Society for Music, Boston Musica Viva, and the Goethe Institute. Artists who receive particular attention include Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius and Bauhaus, Ernst Barlach, Albrecht Dürer, Erich Heckel, Max Ernst, and Paul Klee.
The loose scrapbook materials may have been intended to be combined into a scrapbook that was never formally assembled.
The scrapbooks also include many newspaper and magazine clippings from the Harvard Crimson, Boston Herald, Boston Transcript, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Boston Traveler, Cambridge Chronicle, Boston Arts, Harvard Bulletin, Harvard University Gazette, Harvard Art Museums Newsletter, Germanic Museum Bulletin, and American-German Review. Clippings are in German, English, Swedish, Dutch, and Italian.
Dates
- Creation: 1819-2011
Language of Materials
Collection materials are mostly in German and English, but also include some materials in Swedish, Dutch, and Italian.
Conditions on Access:
Access: Unrestricted
Extent
41 linear feet (19 file boxes, 1 half file box, 6 record cartons, 19 12x15 folio boxes, 6 13x18 folio boxes, 2 4x10.75 slide boxes)Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Art Museums Archives Repository
The Harvard Art Museums Archives is the official repository for institutional records and historical documents in all formats relating to the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1895 to the present. Its collections include papers of individuals and groups associated with the museums' history, including records of past exhibitions, architectural plans, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as correspondence with collectors, gallery owners, museum professionals, and artists throughout the twentieth century. Its holdings also document the formation of the museums' collections and its mission as a teaching institution.
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